The Grand Unified Syllabary Project

Introduction

The primary objective of the GUS Project is to map the
natural (non-composition based) syllabaries of Unicode onto a common linguistic
frame of reference. The target frame of reference is a CVCT table
(consonant-vowel-consonant-tone) applying IPA rules for the phonemic mapping of
the symbols.

Application

GUS has is not intended as merely an academic exercise.
Rather, it has its origin in the pragmatic "Syllables.txt" developed for Perl
support of syllabic regular expressions. GUS is both an extension and
refinement of that original effort to better and more accurately support a
wider range of scripts as well as and locales. The "Syllables.txt" produced by
the GUS project will serve as a useful reference for:

syllabic character classes.

regular expression languages.

transliteration between syllabaries and other writing systems.

phonetic based and script independent input methods.

Resources

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Help Wanted!

Quite a bit of assistance is still needed for this project to
succeed. In particular experts are needed for the Yi, Canadian Aboriginal,
Katakana, Hiragana and Cherokee syllabaries. Please join the mail list or send
other inquiries by email to yacob(at)users.sourceforge.net.